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TOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) ltIFORI)CtwrKIBlWI "Everybody la Southern Oregoo Rd The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 37-29 North Fir St. Phone 3-911 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor HERB GREY, Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Telegraph Edltox RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER- Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of Marcn a. iby SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per copy ICe. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos, 350 Daily and Sunday One month . 125 Sunday Only One year 3.50 By Carrier In Adwance Medford. Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove, ., Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $13.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c pel copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Connty United Press Full Leased Wire rnr.MRrn .of. AtmiT BUREAU" OP CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: -WEST-HOLLiDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago, De troit, San Francisco, Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver B C - "- NIWlFAMl PUlUSHlIf ASSOCIATION ft AT ION A CREDIT Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec 28, 1944 (It was Tuesday) County Judge J. B. Coleman and Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna both absent from offices in courthouse because of illness. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Citizens have started making their New Year resolutions. The main ones are about as unbreakable as the windshields of automobile were once supposed to be. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 26. 1934 (It was Wednesday) "Doc" Hayes and Ted Lindley lead scoring for Medford High school Cubs basketball team in 37 to 32 victory over Christian church quintet. Six arrested in Medford area during series of '"mopup" liquor violation raids conducted by lo cal law enforcement officers. . 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 26, 1924 (It was Friday) Medford area radio fans re port reception is improving and they have no difficulty in getting coast stations. Motorists warned to keep off state highways in southern Ore gon because of flooding and freezing conditions, 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 26. 1914 . (It was Saturday) Not one arrest for intoxica tion reported by Medford city police on Christmas eve or Christmas day. Medford merchants to hold Special meeting for discussion of a reduction of freight rates. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1954. Editorial Research Report 1. Most of the U.S. Senators who are Catholics voted for or against condemning Sen. Mc Carthy? 2. Some new autos are being sold on . terms . allowing three years for final payment; right or wrong? 2. Some new autos are being sold on terms allowing three years for final payment; right or wrong? . 3. When the U.N. General Assembly endorsed the ' Eisen hower plan to share atomic en ergy data, Russia voted Yes or No, or abstained from voting? 4. The number of amend ments added to the U.S. Consti tution is 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, or 25? 5. Pope Pius XII was crowned before, during, or after World War II? 6. The coffee trade says it ex pects coffee prices to be higher cr lower in three months or so, or about the same as now? 7. William F. Cody was better known by what name? 1. Most voted to condemn. 2. Right. 3. Voted Yes. 4. 22. 5. Just before the outbreak of the war. 6. Lower. 7. Buffalo Bill. RECEIVE LEAVE Long Beach, Calif. (U.R) Veteran crew members of the much-decorated LST 799 were granted holiday leave Saturday. The vessel with a 103-man crew, docked after seven months in Korean waters. I V DUAL MAIL TRIBUNS Don A correspondent feels very sorry for Senator Guy Cordon because he has been forced to leave Oregon and make his home in Washington where he will practice law. We feel sorry for anyone who has to endure the climate of Washington, D. C, rather than enjoy the climate of this state, and particularly this part of it. But we don't feel moved to tears exactly, because of Guy Cordon's fate. For with his prestige and influence in the national capital and skill as a lobbyist he will make more money in a month than he made in a year as senator. AND he wants to make money. Cordon will, moreover, be entirely his own boss, will have no one to tell him what to do or criti cize him for what-he doesWVe will not be surprised to find him starting out with a retainer fee of $50,000 a year. . .. -.; We grant the sacrifice involved, climatically, but in a year or two we predict our former senior Senator will agree that his defeat. at the hands of Dick Neu berger was the . luckiest thing that ever happened to him. - : :. . ; Money isn't everything of course. But plenty of it when, one is still active and doing what he likes, is important. R.W.R. A Modern Samson As the year 1954 approaches its end, there is a gleam of sunlight ' and cheer in the circumabient gloom, to wit: The doctrine of the "Big Lie" seems definitely on the way out. . The McCarthy use of the "Big lie" came to its apogee of irresponsible absurdity when the Wiscon sin Senator made his familiar charge against the President of the United States of being soft toward Communism and by implication, aiding the cause of the enemies of the country. -. THAT was the last straw! McCarthy had made that charge unjustly time after time but many people did not KNOW tha victim so many were inclined to give him, rather than his victim, the benefit of the doubt. But when the charge was publicly made against President Eisenhower whom everyone in a sense knew, the bars were down, the clouds were cleared, all doubts were removed. The American people then KNEW McCarthy was a liar. . And there was only one conclusion that could be drawn, that if the Wisconsin Senator would, make charges so completely false against the President of the , United States, he would have no regard for the truth concerning similar charges against ANY ONE. - ' i Then and there the political build up of this dema gogic imposter and phoney crusader came tumbling down, and his "Big Lie" technique with it. . THIS doesn't mean the junior Senator won't TRY to make a "come back." He is lying low now, and will until the storm passes. There are a few of his die-hard supporters left and an attempt, probably will be made to organize an anti-Ike group for some dirty work at the 1956 convention or before. But the corner-stone of the McCarthy edifice, built up through the past few years has, as we see it crumbled, and like Samson, Joe himself by that one biggest of all his big lies, pulled it down over his ears. R.W.R. . " ' The Big Lie Fails The Big Lie technique doesn't seem to Je working at the present much better abroad than at home. At least the charge made by China that these US airmen shot down were spies, hasn't been believed anywhere outside of that country, except of course in Russia and Russia has only made a pretense of it. The countries of Europe have either said nothing, or like England, have publicly stated, in effect, they don't believe it. Spies don't; wear their uniforms when they start out on their secret and highly dangerous missions. And even China hasn't denied that these airmen were thus attired." - ----A ; THERE is a certain consolation and hope in this, too. ' And it all goes Back to one of our favorite quota tions that you can't fool ALL" the people ALL the time and that includes the people who don't talk English as well as those who do. ' ' Also the people who don't live in a democracy and those who do. All the people in the world in fact. IT IS a slow process. But is in the long run a sure one. And we' don't "cafe what the form of government may be, if it is based upon a lie, upon falsehoods, cruelty and frauds, it may, like Joe McCarthy, make a; big splash for a time but eventually, it is doomed to fail. :7 :r: ' ; ;;V.;;, And so. Communism, as now constituted, is doom ed to fail.. - Like the French revolution it will undoubtedly make great changes in the world socially and eco nomicallyultimate by-products,' so to speak. ; But as the "reign of terror" ended the life and progress of that revolution, so the reign of force and falsehood will end the spread and vitality of this one. And in all likelihood the end will come ultimately, not by force from WITHOUT, but from WITHIN. R.W.R. f uadaf, Sembw 28 115 't Cry! In the Day's Hews Br FRANK JENKINS Russia agrees in a document signed in . Washington by the 27 small naval craft lend-leased to her during World War II by the United States. An explanatory note adds that negotiations has been under way for years for return of these and 121 other naval craft. Ne gotiations, the note says, are continuing on the other 121. TUHS news is carried by the V-- AP teletype in a double spaced bulletin, accompanied by the ringing of a beU. The dou ble spacing and the beU indicate that in the AP's judgment the news is hot stuff.) WELL, I reckon it is. Any sign, however faint, of semi decency on Russia's part is man-bites-dog news. sun; If your neighbor had borrow ed your snow shovel to dig him self out of a disastrous drift and you had been compelled to hire lawyers and negotiate with him f or. 13. YEARS , to get even the handle of it back you'd know what kind . of neighbor he is, wouldn't you? .. AND-.., , "I'd say. . . If , you're SMART you wouldn't pick a fight with him that might result in both of you getting killed, but you'd be very cagey indeed about lending him another shovel. T0 you remember the story (quite a long time back) about the Czech family that came to the conclusion that life behind the iron curtain was no longer worth living anyway, and so put all its possessions in a truck, pointed the truck at the barbed wire, poured on the coal and LET GO? (The truck smashed through the wire into the free world on the otherf side and the bold bid for freedom so amazed the Com mie guards that they didn't start shooting until it was too late.) I17ELL, a note on the wire says " they've been in the United States now for two Christmases and. the whole family mother, father and six children say it's JUST FINE, and they LOVE it here. A suggestion: The next time you feel the urge to beef about everything, give a thought to this Czech fam ily. Maybe we . who live in America REALLY ARE lucky, A MERICAN Ambassador to "Italy Clair Booth Luce flew from Rome to Sardinia (Sar dinia is the big Italian island in the Mediterranean about a third of the way from Italy to Spain), Her plane carried sacks of live stock feed the U. S. is giving to the drought-stricken island. The feed shipment brings to five million dollars the amount of American from commodities donated by our government to Italy this Christmas season. 1I7E haven't had too much luck buying good will WITH MONEY in Europe. And We have in the neighborhood of six billion dollars worth of agricultural c o m m o d it ies (for which the taxpayers have pung- led up) stored in wearhouses and we're beginning to run out of warehouse space. ,' Maybe it would be better to give food and feed, rather, than money. BDT- 1 Isn't it a bit on the spectacu lar side when our ambassador (a woman, and rather slightly built, at that, for the handling of heavy feed sacks) flies the stuff in a plane from Rome to Sardinia? It would have been simpler "to have the ship stop at Sardinia and have the feed handled by husky deckhands. ST. MATTHEW covers that point rather well. He says (VI, 1,3): "Take . heed that ye do not your , alms., before men, to be seen of them ... when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets ... ; "But when thou doest. alms, let not thy left hand know what thy , right hand doeth." Reds Said Trying . To Thwart Plans , London U.R) The Moscow radio said Saturday the Russians are "taking all steps necessary" to thwart Western plans to use atomic weapons in case of war. It said a decision at the North Atlantic Treaty meeting in Paris last week on the use of atomic weapons "aroused grave alarm" in many quarters. ! "The Soviet people cannot overlook facts which show that aggressive quarters of the Uni ted ' States, Britain and France art; steering a course toward atomic war," the broadcast said, i "They are watching - all maneuvers and machinations of of the Imperialist aggressors to take all steps necessary to frus trate these plans in good time." Matter of Fact b, jop THE MOON'S .OTHER SIDE Saigon, Viet Nam In the past 14 years, in peace and war, this reporter .has spent something like six years overseas in vestigating the meaning to America of de v e lop ments abroad. In all that time, . in the front lines, in remote, un travelled pla . ces and in the Vtm erVTreca nf Jowph Alsop the great world, no single experience has had such impact as three days with the Viet Minh. i- , -..." That may .seem ., ludicrous, specially as my visit to " Com munist territory was unauthor ized, and I had to spend much of the time conversing with my guardians in a canal bank. But no one can be sure what is on the moon's other side until some astronaut goes there; and in the same fashion, t one cannot con ceive the atmosphere of an Asian Communist guerilla area until one gets into the midst of it. As readers of previous reports in this space may perhaps have surmised, the first emotion I felt was a reluctant but strong admiration. 1 Because a man is your enemy, his triumphs are not less trium phant. In the area I visited the Com munist have scored a whole ser ies of political, organizational, military and one has to say it moral triumphs. The thing that impressed me most, in fact, was not the Com munists extraordinary feat of arming, maintaing and expand ing an independent state of sou thern Indochina without exter ior support, and n the teeth of French power. What impressed me most, alas, was the moral fervor they had inspired among non-Communist Viet Minh cad res and the stout support they had obtained from the peasant try. . I am sure I was not deceived by a mere appearance of fer vor and support for a vejy simple reason. Without many thousands of self-denying dedi cated men to lead the work, without the fighting loyalty of the villagers to depend upon in tune of danger, what the Com munists achieved in the zone visited would have been abso lutely impossible. , ' OOTH the mass of peasants and the great numbers of Vietnamese nationalists, politi cal reformers, hopeful idealists and the like who staff the Viet Minh administration, firmly be lieve the Viet Minh Communist leaders when the Communists intone the first of their "three principles" mat tne iirst aim of the state is to serve the people. For the time being in deed, there is good evidence for this belief, and so the great non - Communist majority has been willing and eager to sac rifice and to die for the cause. But if my first emotion was unhappy admiration for- the Communists' many faceted achievement, my second was rage. It was enraging to con trast the economy, efficiency and moral unity of the area I visi- ited with the corruption and chaos of Saigon, where I had been watching Gen. Collins struggle desperately to streng. then southern Indochina against the menace of my hosts in the palm hut. It was even more enraging to talk with these men, most of them so unself -consciously self denying and so genuinely warm ed by the good will towards their own people, and to think all the while of the trick that had been played upon them. For of course Ho Chi Minh's first principle; which so com pletely guided and gripped my friends in the palm hut, is no more than a temporary Commu nist tactic. The first principle will cease to be serving the people; the first principle will become aggrandizing the state, as soon as the Viet Minh have attained full power in Indochina, Missing Freighter Reported as Safe London (U.R) The 1,371-ton Swedish steamer Petra, missing since Thursday with 20 men aboard in storms battering northwest Europe, radioed Sat urday that it was safe with all hands off the Island of Sylt. Deaths attributed to the storms mounted above 150. Snow after four days of howl ing gales and heavy rain dotted the continent . with Christmas postcard .' scenes, but brought fears of possible avalanches in the Alps. ' The Davos Avalanche Warn ing institute warned unristmas holidayers of dangers of heavy snowslides. It advised skiers to avoid long mountain tours and stay within marked and guarded areas. " ' Icy highways in eastern France caused motorists to aban don scores of cars when tem peratures dropped below freezing. and have therefore ceased to de pend upon popular support. . According to report, ruthless ness is already starting in the north where the Viet Minh gov ernment has already attained most of the authority of a nor mal government. All the prep arations for the grim final change over have been made too, even in the southern area. For the idealistic non-Communist cadres are to be found in the civil adminstration; while: 80 per cent of the .Viet Minh army officers and all members! of the security police are hard core Communists. The men who so much imprest sed me, who gave me an idea, indeed, of . what the primitive Christians must have been like, will not be happy when the change is made from serving the people to aggrandizing the state. Most of them, in truth, are un likely to survive the transfor mation. But when they learn they have been hideously tricked, it wiU be too late, for all the levers of real power are ! already in hard, core Communist hands. . .. . : ' . piNALLY, to complete this list of intense emotions aroused by a visit to the . Viet Minh,. besides admiration and deep anger, there was fear as well. It would be dishonest not to admit that fear. It was not fear for myself in the scrape I was in, although I'had a few bad quarter hours. It was fear, rather, for the free world. For if Communist organiza tion and Communist deceit can produce in Asia the kind of re sult I saw with the Viet Minh, then the danger in Asia is even more acute than the worst pessimist among us have been accustomed to think. ' If the cause of freedom is not to be lost in Asia, and so lost in the world, great risk and ef forts and sacrifices by the free nations are going to be needed. The present American attempt to avert the Asian danger on the cheap, with huckster talk ' and feeble political contraptions, is a dangerous fraud' which we are practicing not only" upon the Asians who still dare to choose freedom but worse stUl upon ourselves. ' (Copyright, 1954 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Ha ppy Christmas Seen As Prelude to Bright World By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent - Washington U.R) There really wasn't any way to im prove much upon Christmas day. Around the world, ' Christ mas, did not resound with shot in war or raid or border action by "any .kind of fight ing faction. The day re corded no pick Lyle C. Wilson et lirie, or ma jor strike. That's mighty fine. The CIO and AFL, John L's miners, all .were well. And man agement felt mighty spry; stock owners read quotations high. Christmas Boom The stores absorbed a Christ mas boom. For days on end there wasn't room for one more shopper in the aisles where mer chants practiced bargain wiles. - The weather was kinda cold in spots, but where there's snow the tiny tots and grown-ups, too, can have some fun, the luckier j on some ski run. So many things added up Sat urday to make a nation happy, gay. - - Prosperity is truly here. The next may be a bigger year. And, after that, an odds-on bet, de spite enormous public debt, some bigger better years are due for me and mine and yours and you. The dollar- bill, the silver buck, at least seems to be safely stuck at value fixed by other means than tickling treasury endrocines. . . Beyond the borders of this land, from polar ice to sunny strand, there's quite a lot to say thanks for. Example: There is no hot war. Nor. do the eyes of mothers mist because a cas ualty list contains the name of fighting son .whose little time on earth is done. . Hope for. Security . From wreck and ruln.oi EIC a hope of new security arises, now the chips are down, to. give the Kremlin . cause to . frown. The British said: "Tear up your pact." The . French, perhaps, some courage lacked. But Mr. Dulles had faith : that Europe would' be- free; that Mendes France could stand the gaff and give the West a cause to laugh at Russian efforts to deny free men their chance to unify. '. This lagniappe to the cause of peace is proof that wonders never cease; that faith and hop and charity remain a mighty trinity. All's well well, fairly well, states better, the situation as this letter is sent to you on Christmas Day when all should laugh and also pray. ' V v "a POT LUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributor!) MOST of our readers know that this issue of The Mail Tribune, delivered the morning of the day after Christmas, was edited, prepared and printed on Christmas day. Since there was no paper yesterday, we are tak ing this means (one day late) of wishing our readers A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS. EACH Christmas the United Press, which furnishes The Mail Tribune with its news of happenings elsewhere, gets filled with the gaiety of the season, and sends on its teletype ma chines long and elaborate mes sages of Christmas greeting. Sometimes it. "plays' Christmas carols on the - machine's bell. One such offering Friday after noon was a Christmas tree "drawn" with Xs and sent by the UP bureau in Denver. RETIRING-MAYOR Diamond L. Flynn received a beauti ful pocket watch Thursday aft ernoon at a party of city employ ees. They gave him the watch, appropriately engraved, to re place an old wrist watch with one beaten-up strap, which; he has kept in his pocket and hauls out whenever he wants to know the time. He's never worn it' on his wrist, Dime says, and adds, "Wrist watches have always an noyed me." RIDING to work Monday morning, County Agent Earle Jossy, who lives about 20 miles from his courthouse office, drove on dry pavements. But when he got almost to the court house, he was startled when his car skidded on icy pavement, coused when water sprayed earlier by a street-flushing truck froze. VOUNGSTERS' Christmas let ters to Santa are always ap pealing. Mrs. Ruby Downing, third grade teacher at Central Point school, sent us one writ ten by Elaine Johnson, "all by herself," which she thought was particularly good. We agree, Here's Elaine's . letter : "Dear Santa, I want you to bring aU the other children toys for Christmas. I have all i want. I hope that all of the other chil dren have a nice Christmas too. We should be very thankful for what we have. Love." in Coming Year Return again to thoughts of here, the U.S.A., and all the cheer and laughter that rang out yesterday as Santa in his leaping sleigh, light of gifts and soaring high, became a speck up in the sky. Big Harvest Season The harvest season, now just passed, has left the cribs and big barns massed with food for man and beast and more than any nation had before; enough to let us give a hand to hungry folk in foreign land. - The pretty girl crop, mighty sweet, was even bigger than the wheat.. Our handsome boy crop also pays off better than our crop of maize. All in all, our kids are fine. : XI hope yours are, I'm sure of mine. , Our old folks now live longer, too, - and before the research docks are through, we'll never die, and there we'll be, all living in perpetuity. And this is good because I find that old folks are the nicest kind. " Among the younger, some may shirk while others really can't find work. But unemployment, doles and ' such do not harass this nation much. Be kennel dog or baying hound, most any man can' earn his found. , This could be better, but also worse. We re truly blessed There is no curse upon this very youthful nation which licks its chops of Christmas ration. If all would wish upon a star, our world would never be sub- par. Peace on earth, goodwill to men. My friend, you may say that again. , Five Deaths Listed In Los Angeles Area Los Angeles (U.R) Five high way deaths were reported by the California highway patrol Sat urday to raise southern Cali fornia's holiday toll to seven killed. . Donnie Dean, 38, Indio, was killed when his car hit a cul vert and overturned on highway 60, six miles west of .Beaumont. Martin J. Dean, 48, was seri ously injured. Lee Ranald Jones, 22, of On tario, was killed Friday night on the Mission freeway at Cam pus ave. in a two-car collision. "Edwin Hippey, 84, "of San Bernardino, died Friday night as he was crossing the intersec tion of G street and seventh. No details were immediately available on the deaths of two persons whose surnames were given as Marias and Willis, .who died in the Indio area. . . . i CONCERTINA PLAYER and V Lumber Baron Tony Laos- xucuui was M&iag an active pars in discussions at the weekly Jackson County Chamber of Commerce roundtable luncheon Monday, when he suddenly real- izea ne was at the wrong meet ing. He'd intended to attend the chamber's board of directors sea- sion, meeting a few blocks away. Tony couldn't get up and leave for the other session, though; he'd already started his lunch. . ff:RES a paragraph from Em-. met Mlnn' TaM Pwlr correspondence, recruited for those who might have missed it elsewhere: "Last Saturday morning's frost and ice wai felt more keenly here than any day ' for some time. When our Scotch boy who works for us Saturdays came to work we noticed his 'slip was showing. So we asked him if he had two pair of pants. and he replied that he had on three pair besides his underwear. One pair didn't show." REPORTER the other day spot ted one of Medford's young brunette matrons la vine the groundwork for ah , elaborate practical joke on guests she was expecting that evening. She was having a beauty operator put a blonde switch, worked into bangs, on her head, to be cov ered by a kerchief. Her guests, she thought, would be too thoughtful to comment on the change in her hair color; then at a crucial moment of the evening she'd pull off the kerchief and switch, and appear as a brunette again. TN the yard at 1118 East Main st. the past week has been a Christmas tree which has at tracted probably as much atten tion as any in town. It's not big; it measures only about 18 inches high, is .painted silver, has colored lights and is lighted, in addition, with a spotlight. The tree, in competition with elab orate tree and porch decorations, was just "stuck in the ground" by Pianist Abby Green, and he reports cars have stopped, uwu5 nave garnered, ana nes received Christmas cards, from strangers commenting on tht tiny, perky, happy little tree. STAFF member was talking on the telephone to the district attorney at his home last Friday, when the conversation was in terrupted suddenly. The DA said "Wait a miniifoM'1 Ttiavs ' w. . .1111 V W AM-.S IIV0 quiet interval and then a wail in the background from a very small boy. When the DA return ed to the phone,, he explained "He was about to drink the ink, and I had to take it away from mm." , ,. THE members of the Medford Kiwanis club are happy that after about 30 years of trying, they finally succeeded in having information concerning1 a club activity puDiisneu in ine inter national Kiwanis magazine. MRS. Josephine Jerome, of the Evelyn Apartments, , w a s mystified, for a few- moments Tuesday when ,she received an anxious telephone inquiry from a relative in Bakersfield, Calif. "Are you all right?" the relative inquired. Mrs. Jerome, who was fine, was puzzled until , she found out that news of the earth quake which shook southern Oregon and northern California and been broadcast in Bakers field, and the relative called to make sure Mrs. Jerome - hadn't been harmed. While the 'quake did littlemore than give Med ford a mild shake, it was from here that the United Press got its first temblor report, and in earthquake-conscious Bakers field,, badly hit by a recent quake, it seemed cause enough to call. . . AS is their custom, Mail Trib une employees had a Christ mas party last week all quiet small incident in which our comely and statuesque book- Keeper made a . tiying escape from under the mistletoe and just in time, too. SO, until next Sunday, which is also next year, Potluck staff members join is hoping you have A HAPPY AND PROS PEROUS NEW YEAR. - Soviets Said Ready To Engage in War Moscow (U.R) The Soviet Army Organ Red Star, in an edi torial calling for vigilance by the Armed forces, said Satur day that "each soldier should b ready at any moment to engaga in decisive combat with the enemy and deliver a crushing; UlOW. " : : "Vigilance was and is one of the most important qualities of the fighting morale of the Soviet soldier," it said. ' ,.. By hewing strictly to the lina of Army regulations and step ping up discipline, Red Star said, rr: a h a fiirhtintf Ul 1 lUCia tau lauv a v preparedness of their units and close loopholes which may bf exploited by enemy agents. . : -"The significance of keen vigilance and political foresight increases still more under pres ent conditions, when aggressive : forces inspired by U. S. monopo lists are preparing lor a, ie ir war," it said.
